I am working on Pentaho Report Designer . And I have table COUNTRY and has fields like,
a) Country_ID
b) Country_name
c) population.

In Report, I want to pick field values from Country_name using MESSAGE FIELD. Like $(Country_name), But while running report it is giving <NULL>.

Q 1) why it is giving <NULL> values?
Q 2) how can i use message field to get field value from country_Name.